This semester we saw a group of 12 amazing finalists deliver their deep understanding of important commercial problems affecting a variety of industries.
The teams had 5-minutes to distill and record their pitch detailing the problem they identified. Judges selected winners that were best able to demonstrate they had the most thorough analysis of the problem. With multiple teams emerging as the top picks from the judges, we are excited to annouce three winning teams that each left with $7,500 in R&D funding to finance the development of a solution to the problems they presented!
Congratulations to the winners and all the finalists in this semester’s Quantum Valley Investments® Problem Pitch competition.
Quantum Valley Investments® Problem Pitch winners
Billion Dollar Problem Stream
AI Ethics
The problem:
Biases within Machine Learning (ML) Models and Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms have caused unfair discrimination to less represented or unrepresented populations.
Team:
Monica Tsang - Arts, Psychology
Open Problems Stream
Cove
The problem:
Safety plans, a proven suicide intervention strategy, lacks effectiveness in non-controlled settings.
Team:
Hanna Kyowski - MBET, Engineering
